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October 07, 2005

ELS/HMRC idea looking good

There's been furious activity behind the scenes both here and at AccountingWEB. I received and email from John Stockdyk saying:

"Rebecca Benneyworth, of ICAEW Tax Faculty, is keen to get involved. Shepublished her personal submission to Carter a few weeks ago, and will behappy to liaise with the faculty on this.

John Whiting - the tax industry's media figurehead (star of BBC's Budgetcoverage every year) and former CIOT president is very keen on the idea.The tax bodies worked together on something like this when ELS was firstintroduced - but they didn't have the web tools we now have back then.Richard Mannion, CIOT's representative on the tax bodies' WorkingTogether HMRC liaison project, has also worked closely with us before.

Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax at ACCA (and Working Party rep) alsovoiced interest & support - but was the one who wanted to see more teeth& potential penalties for failure to deliver."

This is looking very promising. Sift's founder Ben Heald is in the loop. If you don't know him, Ben is a CA who was early in with the Internet and has done well with the community format. I first reviewed his efforts back in 1996-7 and was very impressed. Nothing's changed. I'm still impressed.

The more you folk pour into the effort, by visiting this site, following the current AccountingWEB debate and adding comments, the more likely it is to have the desired impact. Over to you. More to follow...

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